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THE GREAT GREEK MYTHS 20x26’Tales of love, sex, power, betrayal, heinous crimes, unbearable separations, atrocious revenge, and metamorphoses - the poetic force of the myths has crossed the centuries. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE ILIAD (10x26’) / COMING SOON: THE ODYSSEY (10x26’)
SAVING EGYPT’S TEMPLES 52’In 1954, Nasser’s project to build a lake in Southern Egypt threatened to submerge hundred of ancient temples, including of Ramses II and Cleopatra. Thanks to an unprecedented international mobilization, discover how this exceptional heritage was saved.
THE TRUE STORY OF KING TUT’S TREASURE 52’& 90’ Almost 100 years after the discovery of King’s Tut’s Tomb, it is time to tell the story in a new light. This film uses 2D and 3D imagery to reconstruct the tomb, the mummy, the funerary objects and the topography of the famous valley of the Kings. We will discover that the treasure was not Tutankhamun’s, but his sister’s!
THE OWL’S LEGACY 13x26’ Chris Marker’s mythical masterpiece released for the first time in 30 years.Thirteen Greek words deciphered by artists and intellectuals from different countries in a film in thirteen episodes.
EGYPT: THE BURIAL PLACE OF SACRED BULLS 52’ 170 after the fabulous discovery of the underground necropolis of bulls Apis, north of Saqqara, the search continues: 25 tombs of sacred bulls are still to discover...
WHEN THE EGYPTIANS SAILED ON THE RED SEA 52’ & 90’ This multi-awards film plunges you into the technical and psychological world of the Egyptians 3,500 years ago.
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ANCIENT HISTORY
ALEXANDER THE GREAT - THE MACEDONIAN 52’ This film portrays the legendary figure, who has always been, and continues to be, a great source of inspiration, even for artists of today.
ANGKOR REDISCOVERED 52’ How did Angkor become the largest, 13th century city ever built?
THE REAL JOAN OF ARC 52’ & 90’ The myth of Joan of Arc has fascinated people the world over. In the collective memory, she is the young shepherd girl who died at the stake having saved France.
THE BIRTH OF PRINTING 52’ & 90’ Gutenberg is responsible for the invention of the movable type printing. But who really was Gutenberg? This docudrama shows the struggle of an inventor who challenged the society of his time.
THE BATTLES OF THE LOUVRE 52’ Through 8 centuries of the trials and tribulations of politics and History, and architecture and art, a medieval fortress has become the largest museum in the world – the Louvre in Paris.
FURNITURES OF VERSAILLES 52’ Via six masterpieces, the film reveals the beauty of the spirit of Versailles of the 17th and 18th centuries. The furniture reveals the personal tastes of its commissioners and portrays something that has ceased to exist!
SECRETS OF THE THRACIAN KING 52’ In 2004 in Bulgaria, Georgi Kitov made a spectacular discovery in the valley of the Thracian Kings: he accessed a still-intact ancient tomb, which housed incredible wealth, dating back to the 4th century B.C.
NOTRE DAME THE AGE OF BUILDERS 2x45’ & 90’ In the Middle Ages, Paris gave birth to the world’s most famous stone edifice: Notre-Dame. 7 centuries have passed since its construction. Watch history come alive thanks to 3D reproduction of the monument. A dramatic tale of ambition, talent, destruction, blood and rebirth.
MODERN HISTORY
BUILDER’S CHALLENGE - STRASBOURG CATHEDRALE 52’ & 90’ Strasbourg Cathedral, a gothic jewel and the highest monument in the West until the 19th century, was both an excessive dream and an architectural feat.
AN OPERA FOR AN EMPIRE 52’ & 90’ Famous for its ghost, the Garnier Opera House is above all the product of a titanic building site and the window of a time, the Second Empire. From 1852 to 1870, eighteen years of flamboyance made Paris the capital of modernity and the seat of “the civilization of opera”.
TRAFALGAR 52’ The greatest navel battle in history, entirely recreated in computer-generated images : a grandiose documentary spectacle that takes us as close to historical reality as possible.
CALAMITY JANE, LEGEND OF THE WEST 52’ From the Great Plains of the American West to the Rocky Mountains, Calamity Jane, Legend of the West recounts the true story of the American West and of one of the most unique of all its women, the fascinating Calamity Jane.
EIFFEL TOWER: A BUILDING WONDER 52’ Delve into the Eiffel Tower’s breathtaking history, from its construction to the present day – thanks to spectacular images and an original 3D vision that retraces the main stages of its construction step by step.
WHEN BANANA RULED 52’ In 19th century Central America, a few entrepreneurial cowboys built an empire that enslaved populations and corrupted governments for over 100 years. who feared neither God nor Man.
THE LAST MERCHANTS OF VENICE 52’ The fascinating story of Venice from the late 19th century to the rise of Mussolini through the saga of one of its richest families: the Stucky family.
THE BIRTH OF HAUTE CUISINE 52’ & 90’ Haute cuisine is a modern luxury that was invented over a century ago by one man. Auguste Escoffier revolutionized French cooking and dining experience and made them a world reference in culinary arts.
CONTEMPORY HISTORY
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PROFESSOR OEHMINCHEN’S MAGNIFICIENT FLYING MACHINES 52’ This is the story of Etienne Oehmichen, a French engineer and biologist considered one of the pioneers of the strobe and the invention of the helicopter.
ELIOT NESS VERSUS AL CAPONE 52’ Based on Al Capone’s trial, following which America’s most famous killer was sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax fraud ( !), the film retraces the criminal saga that gripped Chicago during Prohibition.
VOTES FOR WOMEN : WANTED 52’ In the second half of the 19th century, in the United Kingdom, women began an organised campaign for the right to vote, a right that in 1905, in Edwardian England, women still lacked.
SOVIET UNDERGROUND : HOW WE BUILT THE MOSCOW METRO 52’ In the early 30s, as it was being built, the metro construction workers were summoned to write “The story of the Moscow Metro”.
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION THROUGH ITS FILMS 52’ This documentary relates the Russian Revolution through images from Soviet fiction films. Making a fiction between 1918 and 1934 in the USSR was above all a political act.
CRIMES THAT MADE HISTORY 10x26’ Some crimes have become sensational news stories and their memories are now part of our popular culture. From Jack the Ripper to Roswell and Lady Di, each episode revisits a page of our shared history.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MICHELIN 54’ The rise of Michelin, the living symbol of a company that embodies the history of 19th century independent capitalism, and which has always bounced back in the face of change.
A HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN WORKING CLASS 4x52’ The working class has played an essential part of European countries’ history – through revolutions, wars and social progress. In 4 episodes of a spectacular tale, this show reminds us of what our societies owe to the workers’ movements and its struggles.
ELLIS ISLAND A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN DREAM 52’ & 104’ At the turn of the 20th century, thousand of family crossed the Atlantic Ocean leaving a miserable, persecuted or uncertain existence in Europe…
HISTORY OF RED ARMY 2x52’ For 70 years, the Red Army was one of the foundations of the USSR, an instrument of fear as well as admiration, a symbol of liberation as well as coercion. While everyone knows that Trotsky’s name is attached to his creation, most of its past is made up of military defeats and failures, contrary to the common idea. This documentary explores its history, combining epic narrative and deconstruction of the myth.
THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS GREAT WAR 52’ By the end of 1917 a regiment of African-American soldiers had joined the trenches in France. They discovered both the horrors of war and a world where racial segregation did not exist.
NO GODS, NO MASTERS - THE STORY OF ANARCHISM 3x52’ The series reveals, for the first time, the origins and destiny of a political trend that has been fighting all gods and all masters for over 150 years.
YUGOSLAVIA, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LOOKING GLASS 2x52’ This documentary reveals the formation and disintegration, within our own time, of a neighbouring European State named Yugoslavia.
SCHOOL REVOLUTION 1918-1939 52’ & 90’ Following World War I, in a traumatised Europe, educationalists believed that a world without violence was possible. Figures like Maria Montessori or Célestin Freinet profoundly changed ideas on education.
1917: THE MAKING OF A REVOLUTION 52’ & 90’ Through the voices of Lenin and Gorky, discover the two faces of the Russian Revolution: the theory and the practice.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE YELLOW BIRD 52’ On 13th June 1929, the yellow bird took off for the first European transatlantic flight. Half an hour after, the pilots found a stowaway on board…
SKY HEROES 2x26’ Blending sequences of traditional animation and American comic-strip, the series paints the active portraits of heroes who have made a lasting mark on the history of aviation: Charles Lindbergh and Manfred von Richthofen.
DIED FOR FREEDOM - THE TRAGIC END OF FLIGHT “C CHARLIE” 52’ This drama-documentary tells the tragic story of 7 young airmen - one Canadian and 6 British, who died in the Hautes-Pyrenees, in July 1944.
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CHALLENGING CHURCHILL 52’ & 90’ Winston Spencer Churchill, Nobel Prize winner, hero of World War II. Untouchable? One of the most intriguing stories of World War II as it has never been shown before.
THE EXECUTIONERS OF KATYN 52’ & 90’ This film reveals for the first time, how this crime, attributed to the Nazis for 50 years, was in fact carried out by the NKVD, who secretly killed some 22,000 Polish prisoners of war in the spring of 1920.
MY LIFE IN HITLER’S GERMANY 2x52’ Told only with archival documents, the film is a deeply-moving account of Germany and the Third Reich. How day by day thecountry was crushed by the dictatorship.
KANJI ISHIWARA, THE MAN WHO TRIGGERED THE WAR 52’ & 90’ From 1889 to 1949, his career took in the key moments of Japanese History, in a most spectacular and novel-like way.
MARGHERITA S, THE WOMAN WHO INVENTED MUSSOLINI 52’ For Mussolini, Margherita was his shadow and his speechwriter. She was the Duce’s “other wife”. She was jewish.
GERMAN WAR 2x52’ This film, consisting entirely of archives, will recount the daily lives of both German civilians and soldiers during the six years of WW2, from its start in September 1939 up to the months following the German surrender. A plunge into the private lives of a people on the path to self-destruction.
PHILIPPE PETAIN: 1914-1945, FROM HERO TO TRAITOR 52’ & 90’ What weight of responsibility can prominent political figures bear, and how do they adapt or modify their decisions ?
THE SS, A BARBARIC STATE 52’ Nuremberg is where Nazi congresses were held. In the city where Hitler gathered huge crowds of fanatics, the court hosted in 1945 the greatest trial in History. The Allied victors judged those responsible for the Third Reich.
ACTION T4: A DOCTOR UNDER NAZISM 52’ The film recounts the so-called “Action T4” which consisted of eliminating physical and mental disabilities and those people considered by the Nazi regime to be useless or “asocial”.
HITLER’S EVIL SCIENCE 90’ Between History and Science, this doc highlights an unknown chapter of the “Nazi Center for Scientific Research“ settled in the 30s and dedicated to legitimate the political Nazi Project and the Final Solution. How could the Third Reich lead 10 years of scientific researches completely dedicated to support the Nazi ideology? How could some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century turn away from lights and sink into darkness?
TRACKING DOWN KLAUS BARBIE 52’ This film sheds new light on Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon in 1943-44, and gives particular attention to the scandalous protections that the German and American secret services provided him with.
THE GOERING CATALOG 52’ & 90’ For more than a decade, the number two in the Third Reich amassed a collection of more than 5,000 art works, all meticulously detailed in a catalog. But how did Hermann Goering get his hands on these works?
SHOAH: THE FORGOTTEN SOULS OF HISTORY 52’ Soviet archives house the only filmed memories of the Holocaust. Taken on the fly, these images represent reality. But what reality?
WORKS OF ART STOLEN BY THE NAZIS: THE DOUBLE LOOTING 52’ The film examines the mechanisms of Nazi extortion during the Second World War, and is interspersed with current issues surrounding restitutions.
IN THE NAME OF RACE AND SCIENCE 52’ As it pieces together never-beforeseen archival footage, the film investigates a long-forgotten crime committed by a handful of Nazi scientists.
AUSCHWITZ MUSEUM 52’ Here’s the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, as it appears to us: vestiges, ruins, traces. Some barbed wires, some barracks, some birches… Do they have a role or a mission today? Which one?
THE FOUR SISTERS 52’, 64’, 68’ & 90’ Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman and Hanna Marton - four names of Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and ruthless savagery. By the director of the monumental Shoah.
THE NEIGHBOURS 102’ The director is visiting a 79-year old man whom his Jewish parents hid with a stranger’s family during the German occupation of Paris. A highly emotional piece of history.
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KOREA: THE HUNDRED-YEAR WAR 2x52’ In 2018, for the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953, Donald Trump, president of the United States and Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea, met. Supported by South Korean, they pledged to open a new era of peace.
A COUNTER HISTORY OF INTERNET 52’ A look back at the emergence of Internet freedom defence movements that have sprung up in reaction to growing regulation of the Web by governments and multinationals.
THE ATOM, THE STORY OF A COVER-UP 52’ This film is an historical investigation of radioactivity. From Marie Curie to Fukushima, we reveal the lies conveyed by the world of the atom.
THE WARNING - How us and Russian secret services collaborated on climate change 52’ & 90’ The amazing and unknown story of how climate change forced the two rival blocs Americans and Russian to collaborate in the eraly 60’s.
CANNES, THE FREEDOM FESTIVAL 52’ Created in 1939 as a response to the rise of Fascism and Nazism, notably in the Venice Film Festival, Cannes was meant to be an event to celebrate freedom in the world and in cinema.
COLONIA DIGNIDAD, A NAZIE SECT IN THE LAND OF PINOCHET 52’ & 85’ Colonia Dignidad was founded during the 60s in Chile.This documentary tries to tear open its web. It denounces this sprawling criminal organization that no one dare defy.
CASTRO’S REVOLUTION VS. THE WORLD 2x52’ For 60 years, Fidel Castro was a thorn in the side of USA and a symbol of anti-imperialist struggle. Castro and his compatriots played a prominent role on the international stage and contributed to changing the world.
A PRESIDENT FOR AMERICA: A USER’S GUIDE 52’ This film looks at the profound metamorphoses the image of the President of the United States underwent since the start of the 20th century.
CHE GUEVARA, BEYOND THE MYTH 52’ With on-camera testimonies, previously unseen documents and little known archive footage, this is the story of a man trapped by his own legend.
WARRING BROTHERS: FROM ATATURK TO ERDOGAN 90’ The idea behind this film is straightforward: explaining why no one understands what’s going on in Turkey any more. And the point? Freeing our gaze from preconceived notions and from the illusion of perspective. Dig out, for the first time, a complete, unified vision of the Turks’ path since the beginning of their existence as such.
FARAH DIBA PAHLAVI, THE LAST EMPRESS 52’ In her own words, Farah Diba Pahlavi - a role model to women in Iran - tells her turbulent life story, and how she became the first and only Empress in the history of Persia.
IRAN: THE HUNDRED-YEAR WAR 60’ & 90’ Over the course of a century, these images narrate the thwarted destiny of a pivotal nation, caught between archaism and modernity, secularity and religion, submissiveness and independence, East and West.
THE END OF THE OTTOMANS 2x52’ As it unfolds the century-long history of the collapse of the Ottomans, the film offers an in-depth understanding of the impact the process had on the former Ottoman territories, up to the present time.
IRAN, DREAMS OF AN EMPIRE 52’ This film sets out to provide an in-depth analysis of the strategic objectives that Iran is pursuing in the Middle East, encompassing its role in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and beyond.
SEX REVOLUTIONS 2x52’ The sexual revolution redefined our societies : from New-York to Paris, San Francisco and Berlin, discover previously unseen public and private archives with analysis by the most eminent experts.
EGYPT’S MODERN PHARAOHS 3x52’ & 97’ The series plunges the spectator into the heart of contemporary Egyptian history, interweaving the major themes of the Army, the Moslem Brotherhood, International Relations and the role of Civil Society.
MAHATMA GANDHI, BEYOND THE MYTH 52’ Gandhi was a world known icon, a non-violent leader and symbol of India’s independence. The film questions what remains of the myth, what it still inspires, its failures as well as the way it was eventually betrayed.
INDIA’S DESTINY 52’ & 94’ Seen through the history of 3 generations of a New Delhi family, this documentary recounts India’s extraordinary journey, from socialism under Nehru to globalization today.
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BEHIND THE RAINBOW 2x52’, 120’ & 138’ This film explores the transition of the ANC from a liberation organization into South Africa’s ruling party, through the evolution of the relationship between two of its most prominent cadres, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.
PIGALLE 52’ The film tells the story of a square, a district, and a people like a vibrant convergence of Parisian culture.
CORLEONE: MAFIA AND BLOOD 2x70’ In a 5-year in depth investigation, discover how a young rural mobster took power in the 1970’s over the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s legendary mafia, torturing and killing each competitor one by one, becoming the most feared and violent organized-crime leader ever.
THE 9 LIVES OF NORODOM SHIHANOUK 52’ Successively Prince, Constitutional King, Prime Minister, Head of State for life, exile, prisoner, and then King again, he has lived through, and also embodies all episodes of Cambodian drama.
THE BHUTTO SAGA OR POLITICS IN THE BLOOD 52’ This documentary is a Greek tragedy fuelled by political atavism. Their history is marked by secrecy, curse and deat and reminds us of that of the Ghandis or Kennedys.
NELSON MANDELA, BEYOND THE MYTH 52’ Mandela’s legend is built in his absence, during his 27- year incarceration. On the 11th of Febrary 1990, when he is released, he doesn’t know it yet, he is the most famous political prisoner of the Planet.
SIXTY EIGHT - 10 YEARS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD 4x52’ & 90’ What remains of the 1968 movement? Filled with Sixties fever, this series tells the powerful years of all kinds of possibilities, whose heritage still divides.
JAPAN, THE EMPEROR, AND THE ARMY 60’ & 90’ How 60 years after its defeat, Japan has become one of the world’s prominent military powers in spite of its pacifist constitution.
A SPY IN LOVE 52’ From an extraordinary true-life story, discover the life of an ordinary spy. A discreet, low-level French civil servant is manipulated by the Chinese secret services and becomes a spy out of sheer love.
FAREWELL COMRADES! 6x52’ Filmed in 12 European countries, alternating personal accounts and archive footage, this series offers a unique perspective on one of the key events of the 20th century: the high point and fall of the Soviet Empire.
THEY WERE THE RED BRIGADES 2x52’ This documentary tells the stories of the men who organised this kidnapping, defying the Italian State, terrorising Italy, and opting in the end to bring it to a tragic conclusion.
THE WAY OF TAO 52’ This documentary gores in search of Taoism in China, to outline the keyn notions, to touch on its origins, and to gain an understanding of the reasons for its rebirth in France since the 1980s.
THE REAL POWER OF THE VATICAN 104’ This 2-part documentary recounts the secret history of Vatican diplomacy over the course of the last century. Based onsecret archives, with additional research by historians and accounts by members of the Roman Curia.
DATES THAT MADE HISTORY 10x26’ This series tells world history through a few major dates, revisited through the prism of memory. Driven by the accessible and passionate delivery of historian Patrick Boucheron, history comes to life under our eyes with bold and entertaining graphics. COMING SOON: 20 NEW EPS
JESUS AND ISLAM 7x52’ Jesus, the founding figure of Christianity, is also an exceptional character in the Qur’an. Why? In what way? CORPUS CHRISTI 12x52’, BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY 10x52’ and THE APOCALYPSE 12x52’
THE KORAN 52’ The Koran - from the Arab al-Qur’an meaning reading or recitation - is the founding book of Islam, a religion common to nearly one and a half billion believers in the world.
THE TALMUD 52’ The Talmud is most important achievement of Jewish culture. Yet this veritable heritage of humanity remains to this day and object of curiosity, shrouded in mystery, and very little kwown.
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